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Coventry Patmore

The Unknown ErosCoventry Patmore The Unknown Eros PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION To this edition of “The Unknown Eros” are added all the other poems I have written, in what I venture—because it has no other name—to call “catalectic verse.” Nearly all English metres owe their existence as metres to “cat...

The Angel in the HouseCoventry Patmore The Angel in the House Book I THE PROLOGUE 1 ‘Mine is no horse with wings, to gain The region of the spheral chime;He does but drag a rumbling wain, Cheer’d by the coupled bells of rhyme;And if at Fame’s bewitching note My homely Pegasus pricks an ear,The wo...

The Victories of Love, and Other PoemsCoventry Patmore The Victories of Love, and Other Poems INTRODUCTION After the very cordial reception given to the poems of “The Angel in the House,” which their author generously made accessible to the readers of these little books, it is evident that anothe...